Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chamberswas an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 July 1874
years knowing israel
As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.
blessing persons
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
forgiving cost vices
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
hinder usefulness
Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.
weakness
An unguarded strength is a double weakness.
prayer acceptance quality
Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance.
spiritual intellectual criticism
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.
spiritual mark certainty
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
enemy obsessed assault
To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.
miracle new-life redemption
The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.
spiritual promise matter
Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.
father thinking worry
God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
heart humility evil
The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.
jesus purpose world
The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.